The only thing I'm worried about is the UbiPlay or whatever it is called. Almost every game I've played on that has had problems with cloud saves. I practically had to play through Splinter Cell: Conviction twice due to mix-ups between cloud and local saves. It was extremely frustrating. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands seemed to think I was back to lvl 1 every time I started that game up. My progress in the game was fine, but every time I had to start earning XP towards the special abilities again.

But... but... I want an excuse to say no. In reality, I'll likely just let it pass until it's really cheap and ignorantly ask the video game deals thread if it's any good. As much as I loved my time with Far Cry 2, I somehow don't really care about 3 right now and can't really be bothered to seek out new media on it.

I played FC2 and Crysis 2 before the prior games. Far Cry came out too early in the 360's cycle for me to catch, and Crysis came out as a download long after the release of Crysis 2.

Yeah, Far Cry and Crysis really are PC games. The 360 version of Far Cry is Far Cry:Instincts, which is a port of an Xbox pseudo-sequel to the original Far Cry. I have no idea how Crysis holds up on console, but it still can push a modern PC, so I would guess that it's stripped down in some way to work on 360.

And I'm officially over Far Cry 3. I really wanted it to be Far Cry 2, I really wanted my favorite things to come over but here we are with a mini map and health and just video game trait after video game trait. I am absolutely crushed by how gamey Far Cry 3 is.

I wish the rest of you good luck on your travels with Far Cry 3 but this is where I get off.

And I'm officially over Far Cry 3. I really wanted it to be Far Cry 2, I really wanted my favorite things to come over but here we are with a mini map and health and just video game trait after video game trait. I am absolutely crushed by how gamey Far Cry 3 is.

I wish the rest of you good luck on your travels with Far Cry 3 but this is where I get off.

And I'm officially over Far Cry 3. I really wanted it to be Far Cry 2, I really wanted my favorite things to come over but here we are with a mini map and health and just video game trait after video game trait. I am absolutely crushed by how gamey Far Cry 3 is.

I wish the rest of you good luck on your travels with Far Cry 3 but this is where I get off.

Yeah. This is confirming how I felt about the game from that first impression E3 demo.

I haven't been paying much attention to this, but I'm still mildly looking forward to it. Some of my favourite games were ones I was only mildly looking forward to.

Far Cry 2 felt like an amazing sim with very little to do in it, I think some degree of gamey-ness returning to the series is probably a good thing for me. I also hope bullet damage is ramped up a bit across the board, the NPCs took too long to kill; despite being dudes in shirts (and sometimes not even that) it felt like everyone was wearing a bullet proof vest.

I hope there's some respawning, otherwise the jungle may be quite empty after a while. I didn't have a huge problem with the respawning checkpoints, but they respawned so quickly which was a pain. It would have been better if there was a shortcut for each one that bypassed the guards, with Saints Row 3 style GPS unlocking, so once you've found it it'll drive you around guards by default.

I actually grew quite bored with Far Cry 2 after a while. It got very repetitive halfway through. Too much driving. Too much back-tracking.

And c'mon... holding a map was cool... but it was still a map with a moving blip on it.

I'm hoping Far Cry 3 will be better in many regards. I'll hold out for some reviews though.

I never grew bored with FC2, I enjoyed it all the way through, but I don't understand the cultish devotion to it either. It was good, but not good enough to make me automatically think any serious changes will be for the worse (quite the opposite, actually) It had some serious problems at the basic design level. I think maybe some Idle Thumbs fans put it on a pedestal.

I don't understand those who found Far Cry 2 boring, kinda like I don't understand tattoos or Star Wars. For me I found Far Cry 2 to be a fun experience that always left me with a new story to tell of how I survived the safari. My favorite parts of Far Cry 2 was no hud and if I wanted to check the map I either had to pull it out or squint at the tiny GPS in the vehicle. It was a first and absolutely mind blowing for me. It also caused my gameplay to be effect but I didn't mind since it felt like it should. If you were in real life and were being chased by guys you wouldn't have a mini map to guide you, you'd have a real map, and if you focused too much on that map your truck could end up flying off a cliff or up a tree.

I've never been one for realism or supporting the immersion of a game but Far Cry 2 did that for me and my experience with it was extremely good. My only issues with it was the map editor wasn't robust enough and the ending was decent but it just didn't feel that good.

The respawning checkpoints wasn't a problem for me since I kinda figured in the game world that these were like terrorist organizations they have thousands of people and can restock those checkpoints at will. How did they find out so fast? I'm driving past cars every 10-15 minutes, it's not hard to believe these cars are alerting the main guys about the empty checkpoints.

Far Cry 3 ,in that video, takes away my map, it took away the clean UI, it gave me drugs and trippy sequences. I'm okay with some of the changes like the tropical setting, back to the first again, and the XP system but I can't get behind the drug use, the ugly UI and then there is the whole insanity thing which was cool up until the game got delayed and that extra month of marketing has actually made me start finding it annoying.

Just thought I'd explain why I said what I said in my post instead of just seeming like a blind fool who holds Far Cry 2 up on a pedestal.

I really enjoyed FC2 and I don't mind if they've made FC3 more gamey as long as they've fixed the some of the bigger flaws of the first game and it's still fun, tense, and gives me choices in how I want to accomplish my missions. I don't think I'll buy it at release (I've spent way too much on gaming this year), but I'll definitely be playing FC3 at some point.

I don't think I have enough hands to count the number of AAA games I'm buying/bought this half of the year, and now Far Cry 3 is definitely another one. I was more than likely going to get it soonish, but this video sold me. I see they've got most of the things that made Far Cry 2 great, but also the narrative hooks they've been marketing (not in the video).

I love their dialogue around 4:20.

"Duke Nukem Forever's switch from Quake II to Unreal technology took six weeks, but it will ultimately save months of development time."
@Holysh*tMatt